Recent Additions 6 : Heritage Blues Orchestra : And Still I Rise

This is actually a repurchase after I gave my last copy away.  I suspect this will happen again.  It features father and daughter Bill and Chaney Sims and I came across it through an Amazon recommendation after buying some Carolina Chocolate Drops albums (Similar but rootsier).   This album is part blues, part bluegrass and............ well maybe they say it best in the small poster that comes with it;

Son House

New Orleans

Blues

Debussy

Africa

Field Hollers

Duke Ellington

Mississippi Delta

Spirituals

Nina Simone

Kansas City

Work Songs

Count Basie

Hill Country

Jazz

Ravel

Highway 61

Gospel 

Pretty audacious but they pull it off - bringing consistency to what could have sounded like a mix tape. A selection includes Hard Times,  Don't ever let nobody drag your spirit down, and Get Right Church - but there are no bad tracks on this. 

Sadly it is not available on vinyl.